John Gazzola | |
Office: | President of the South Australian Legislative Council |
Term Start: | 17 October 2012 |
Term End: | 5 May 2014 |
Predecessor: | Bob Sneath |
Successor: | Russell Wortley |
Office1: | Member of the South Australian Legislative Council |
Term Start1: | 9 February 2002 |
Term End1: | 17 March 2018 |
Party: | Australian Labor Party (SA) |
Occupation: | Trade union official |
John Mario Gazzola (pronounced as /it/; born 1957) is a former Australian politician who was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council for the Labor Party from 2002 to 2018. He was President of the Council from 2012 to 2014.[1]
From 2003 to 2012, Gazzola was a member of the South Australian Parliament's Aboriginal Lands Parliamentary Standing Committee.
Previous to entering politics, Gazzola was secretary of the Australian Services Union (SA).[2]
Gazzola announced in February 2017 that he would not stand for re-election and would retire from parliament after the 2018 South Australian state election.[3]